Definitions for rocket
ˈrɒk ɪtrock·et

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. rocket, projectilenoun

   any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine

2. rocket, rocket enginenoun

   a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

3. rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativanoun

   erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

4. rocket, skyrocketnoun

   propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

5. skyrocket, rocketverb

   sends a firework display high into the sky

6. rocket, skyrocketverb

   shoot up abruptly, like a rocket

   "prices skyrocketed"

7. rocketverb

   propel with a rocket

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1. Rocketnoun

   any flying device propelled by the reactive force of hot gases expelled in the direction opposite its motion. The fuel used to generate the expelled gases in rockets may be solid or liquid; rockets propelled by liquid fuels typically have a combustible fuel (such as hydrogen or kerosene) which is combined inside the rocket engine with an oxidizer, such as liquid oxygen. Single liquid fuels (called monopropellants) are also known. Since rocket engines do not depend on a surrounding fluid medium to generate their thrust, as do airplanes with propellers or jet engines, they may be used for propulsion in the vacuum of space.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Rocketnoun

   a cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad

2. Rocketnoun

   damewort

3. Rocketnoun

   rocket larkspur. See below

4. Rocketnoun

   an artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display

5. Rocketnoun

   a blunt lance head used in the joust

6. Rocketverb

   to rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective

7. Etymology: [It. rocchetta, fr. rocca a distaff, of German origin. Named from the resemblance in shape to a distaff. See Rock a distaff.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Rocket

   A rocket is a self-propelled, unguided weapon system powered by a rocket motor.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Rocket

   rok′et, n. a firework which is projected through the air, used for making signals in war, and for saving life at sea by conveying a line over a stranded vessel.—v.i. to fly straight up rapidly when flushed.—ns. Rock′et-case, a case for holding the materials of a rocket; Rock′eter. [Old It. rocchetto; of Teut. origin. Cf. Rock, a distaff.]

2. Rocket

   rok′et, n. any one of several ornamental Old World herbs of the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family. [O. Fr. roquette—L. eruca, cole-wort.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. rocket

   The well-known pyrotechnical preparation, but modified to suit various purposes. A cylindrical case charged with a fiercely burning composition, the gases of which, rushing out from the after-end against the resisting atmosphere, propel the whole forward at a rate continually increasing, until the composition be expended. It is generally kept in balance by a long light stick or tail attached. The case is made of metal or paper, and variously headed to the amount of 32 lbs. if its purpose be war (see CONGREVE-ROCKETS); life-saving (by conveying a line over a stranded vessel); even the killing of whales, when reduced to 1, 2, or 3 lbs.; or, lastly, signals, for which it is fired straight upwards.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. rocket

   A rocket is a projectile which is set in motion by a force residing within itself; it therefore performs the twofold function of piece and projectile. See Pyrotechny.

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1. rocketnoun

   A joint (see marijuana).

2. rocketnoun

   To blast off into a high when smoking a joint.

Matched Categories

1. • Herb
   • Jet Engine
   • Propel
   • Rise
   • Vehicle
   • Visual Signal

How to pronounce rocket?

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How to say rocket in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rocket in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rocket in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rocket in a Sentence

1. Juliette Touma:

   Mr de Mistura said we will have to engage with the opposition on the six-week halt and see what sort of response we get from them with regard to halting rocket and mortar attacks. If that works and we have a positive response from both sides that means the six-week halt can actually start.

2. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. . .  This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

3. Veronika Didusenko:

   It took us two days to get out of Ukraine because of huge traffic jams, everyone was rushing to the border as well. I was driving with military cars on one side and tanks on the other side with Russian helicopters flying above my head. I was very scared for my life and my son’s. There wasn’t enough food, enough water. You especially couldn’t sleep with the sirens going on all the time. Every noise from a car or plane made me look around. I was worried that it was a rocket, a bomb or someone shooting. I can’t even begin to imagine what the people who stayed are going through. I knew I had to survive.

4. Mark Milley:

   We have pretty good confidence who did this. We were able to capture the truck, it was a modified truck with tubes, rocket tubes on the back, the Iraqi security forces did a good job in helping secure that truck. We have good indications based on forensics where it was fired from, who did the firing and so on and so forth.

5. Jeffrey Lewis:

   The location of the launch, the thick, smoky appearance of the exhaust and the fact that there is only one rocket trail all suggest this was the short-range ballistic missile that North Korea showed in North Korea propaganda.

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